First set of words in the AP World History book by the Princeton Review.
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| 4864788511 | Agriculture | The deliberate effort to modify a portion of Earth's surface through the cultivation of crops and the raising of livestock for sustenance or economic gain. | 0 | |
| 4864788512 | Agrarian | pertaining to land or its cultivation; Ex. agrarian reform, agrarian society | 1 | |
| 4864788513 | Bands/ Clans | extended family groups that generally lived together | 2 | |
| 4864788514 | Civilization | a society in an advanced state of social development (e.g., with complex legal and political and religious organizations) | 3 | |
| 4864788515 | City-States | different sections of land owned by the same country but ruled by different rulers (e.g. Greece) | 4 | |
| 4864788516 | Domestication | process of changing plants or animals to make them more useful to humans | 5 | |
| 4864788517 | Economy | system by which goods and services are produced and distributed to meet people's needs | 6 | |
| 4864788518 | Egalitarian | a person who believes in the equality of all people | 7 | |
| 4864788519 | Foraging | the process of scavenging for food | 8 | |
| 4864788520 | Hierarchy | a series of ordered groupings of people or things within a system | 9 | |
| 4864788521 | Hunter-Gatherer | A hunter-gatherer society is one whose primary subsistence method involves the direct procurement of edible plants and animals from the wild, foraging and hunting without significant recourse to the domestication of either plants nor animals | 10 | |
| 4864788522 | Irrigation | supplying dry land with water by means of ditches, sprinklers, etc. | 11 | |
| 4864788523 | Monarchy | a government in which power is in the hands of a single person who usually inherits their power | 12 | |
| 4864788524 | Monotheism | belief in a single God | 13 | |
| 4864788525 | Neolithic | The New Stone Age from circa 8500 to 4500 BCE: The period of the Stone Age associated with the ancient Agricultural Revolution(s) | 14 | |
| 4864788526 | Nomadic | (of groups of people) tending to travel and change settlements frequently | 15 | |
| 4864788527 | Pastoral | relating to shepherds or herdsmen or devoted to raising sheep or cattle (e.g. pastoral peoples) | 16 | |
| 4864788528 | Paleolithic | The Old Stone Age from circa 750,00 to 500,000 years BCE to 8,500 years BCE: The period of the Stone Age associated with the evolution of humans and the development of minor tools | 17 | |
| 4864788529 | Philosophy | the rational investigation of questions about existence, knowledge, and ethics | 18 | |
| 4864788530 | Polytheism | belief in multiple Gods | 19 | |
| 4864788531 | River Valley | the fertile land surrounding a river- the first civilizations arose near them | 20 | |
| 4864788532 | Sedentary | remaining in one place | 21 | |
| 4864788533 | Settlement | the act of colonizing or a small group of people in a sedentary position | 22 | |
| 4864788534 | Subsistence | the necessities of life, the resources of survival | 23 | |
| 4864788535 | Surplus | a quantity much larger than is needed | 24 | |
| 4864788536 | Sustenance | the act of sustaining life by food or providing a means of subsistence | 25 | |
| 4864788537 | Theocracy | government run by religious leaders | 26 | |
| 4864788538 | Traditional | consisting of or derived from tradition; customary practices | 27 | |
| 4864788539 | Urbanization | the social process whereby cities grow and societies become more urban | 28 | |
| 4864788540 | Bronze Age | a period between the Stone and Iron ages, characterized by the manufacture and use of bronze tools and weapons |  | 29 |
| 4864788541 | Code of Hammurabi | the set of laws drawn up by Babylonian king Hammurabi dating to the 18th century BC, the earliest legal code known in its entirety |  | 30 |
| 4864788542 | Cuneiform | One of the first written languages known: A system of writing in which wedge-shaped symbols represented words or syllables. It originated in Mesopotamia and was used initially for Sumerian and Akkadian but later was adapted to represent other languages of western Asia. |  | 31 |
| 4864788543 | Democracy | a political system in which the supreme power lies in a body of citizens who can elect people to represent them | 32 | |
| 4864788544 | Iron Age | the period following the Bronze Age; characterized by rapid spread of iron tools and weapons | 33 | |
| 4864788545 | Pyramids | Huge stone tombs with four triangle-shaped walls that met in a point on top |  | 34 |
| 4864788546 | Shang Civilization | China's first dynasty almost 2000 BCE | 35 | |
| 4864788547 | Ziggurats | a temple or tomb of the ancient Assyrians, Sumerians, or Babylonians, having the form of a terraced pyramid of successively receding stories |  | 36 |
| 4864788550 | Sumerians | people who dominated Southern Mesopotamia through the end of the 3rd Millennium BCE. Responsible for the creation of irrigation technology, cuneiform, and religious conceptions. |  | 37 |
| 4864788551 | Indo-Europeans | Groups of people who came from the area north of the Caucasus mountains, which are between the Black and Caspian seas. Herded multiple animals. Rode into battle on chariots. The Indo-European language of Sanskrit, by the Aryans, are the basis of many languages today. Often accepted and adapted aspects of technology, religions, and social order of those with whom they came in contact. |  | 38 |
| 4864788552 | Patriarchal | Before agriculture, men and women are believed to have a greater degree of equality. But after the rise of agriculture, most human societies became ________ as a result of greater male strength. |  | 39 |
| 4864788553 | caste system | a set of rigid social categories that determined not only a person's occupation and economic potential, but also his or her position in society, there was virtually no social mobility |  | 40 |
| 4864788554 | Paleolithic | (Old Stone Age) a long period of human development before the development of agriculture |  | 41 |
| 4864788555 | Carthage | This city has existed for nearly 3,000 years, developing from a Phoenician colony of the 1st millennium BC into the capital of the Carthaginian Empire. Controlled commerce in the Mediterranean prior to the rise of Roman Power. The expanding Roman Republic took control of many of its outposts after the two Punic Wars. |  | 42 |
| 4864788556 | North America |  | 43 | |
| 4864788557 | Caribbean |  | 44 | |
| 4864788558 | Latin America |  | 45 | |
| 4864788559 | Central Africa |  | 46 | |
| 4864788560 | East Africa |  | 47 | |
| 4864788561 | East Asia |  | 48 | |
| 4864788562 | Eastern Europe |  | 49 | |
| 4864788563 | Middle East (Southwest Asia) |  | 50 | |
| 4864788564 | South Africa |  | 51 | |
| 4864788565 | South Asia |  | 52 | |
| 4864788566 | Southeast Asia |  | 53 | |
| 4864788567 | West Africa |  | 54 | |
| 4864788568 | Western Europe |  | 55 | |
| 4864788569 | Norte Chico | A region along the coast of Peru that possessed a highly-developed urban culture as early as 2500 B.C.E. Characterized by massive stepped pyramids and extensive use of cotton. |  | 56 |
| 4864788570 | Indus Valley | 3rd millennium BC, Elaborately planned cities, standardized measures, irrigated agriculture, written language, no temples kings etc., had a lot of land, no political hierarchy, was abandoned because of mass deforestation, low crop yields, famine, environmental deterioration, etc. their influence continued even to this day (i.e. yoga). Important because it shows how we developed in our cities and economy. |  | 57 |
| 4864788571 | Olmec Civilization | earliest known American civilization, located in southern Mexico and known for its pyramids and huge stone heads |  | 58 |
| 4864788572 | Uruk | an ancient Sumerian city in Southern Iraq, near the Euphrates, important before 2000 b.c. : exclusive archaeological excavations, notably of a ziggurat and of tablets with very early Sumerian script. |  | 59 |
| 4864788573 | Mohenjo-Daro / Harappa | the two main cities of india, know as twin capitals and both 3 miles in circumference |  | 60 |
| 4864788574 | Epic of Gilgemesh | Mesopotamian flood story that includes legends and myths, the friendship of Gilgamesh and Enkidu |  | 61 |
| 4864788576 | Patriarchy | A form of social organization in which a male is the family head and title is traced through the male line |  | 62 |
| 4864788577 | Rise of the State | A process of centralization that took place in the First Civilizations, growing out of the greater complexity or urban life in recognition of the need for coordination, regulation, adjudication, and military leadership |  | 63 |
| 4864788578 | Egypt: "the gift of the Nile" | provided annual and predictable flooding that benefited and provided a sustainable lifestyle for this civilization, also gave them a stable and positive worldview, proved unty and independence and security |  | 64 |
| 4864788579 | Nubia | A civilization to the south of Egypt in the Nile Valley, noted for development of an alphabetic writing system and a major iron working industry by 500 BCE |  | 65 |
| 4864788580 | Venus Figurines | Paleolithic carvings of the female form, often with exaggerated breasts, buttocks, hips, and stomachs, which may have had religious significance |  | 66 |
| 4864788581 | Dreamtime | A complex worldview of Australia's Aboriginal people that held that current humans live in an echo of ancestral happenings |  | 67 |
| 4864788582 | Clovis Culture | The earliest widespread and distinctive culture of North America; named from the Clovis point, a particular kind of projectile point |  | 68 |
| 4864788583 | Austronesian Migrations | The last phase of the great human migration that established a human presence in every habitable region of the earth. Austronesian-speaking people settled the Pacific island and Madagascar in a series of seaborne migrations that began around 3,500 years ago |  | 69 |
| 4864788584 | shamans | In many early societies, a person believed to have the ability to act as a leasion between living humans and supernatural forces, often by means of trances induced by psychoactive drugs |  | 70 |
| 4864788585 | Paleolithic settling down | The process by which some Paleolithic peoples moved toward permanent settlement in the wake of the last Ice Age. Settlement was marked by increasing storage of food and accumulation of goods, as well as growing inequalities in society |  | 71 |
| 4864788586 | Gobekli Tepe | oldest religious structure. made by hunter gathers. Indicates that religion came before organization of labor, settlement and agriculture |  | 72 |
| 4864788587 | Fertile Crescent | A geographical area of fertile land in the Middle East stretching in a broad semicircle from the Nile to the Tigris and Euphrates |  | 73 |
| 4864788588 | Teosinte | a wild grass found in the highlands of Mexico, is the wild ancestor of maize |  | 74 |
| 4864788589 | Diffusion | Is the process by which a characterictic spreads | | 75 |
| 4864788590 | Bantu Migrations | (1500BCE to 500CE) As the Bantu people migrated, they spread the Bantu family of languages and culture. The Bantu also spread the use of iron, which improved farming techniques and agricultural efficiency, the greater food supply sparked economic development and population growth. The changes instigated by the Bantu migration increased the vitality of sub-Saharan Africa. |  | 76 |
| 4864788591 | Pastoral Societies | Based on the domestication of animals and use their products as main source of food. Groups move where there is foods but they are more settlers than nomads. Independent and warlike. |  | 77 |
| 4864788592 | Catalhuyuk | Good example of agricultural village society. Social structure, buried dead, many people, well built houses, specialization. |  | 78 |
| 4864788593 | Chiefdoms | A society that is led by a ruler of decent, but seldom used force to lead their people. They relied on generosity, charisma, and leadership to rule. |  | 79 |
| 4864788594 | Paleolithic Rock Art | The hundreds of Paleolithic painting discovered in Spain and France, dating to about 20,000 years ago; these paintings depict a range of animals, although human figures and abstract designs are also found. |  | 80 |
| 4864788595 | Neanderthals | Homo sapiens neanderthalensis, a European varient of Homo sapiens that died out about 25,000 years ago |  | 81 |
| 4865584818 | Agrarian | relating to cultivated land or the cultivation of land | 82 | |
| 4865605400 | Mesopotamia | the name for the area of the Tigris-Euphrates river system, in modern days roughly corresponding to most of Iraq plus Kuwait, the eastern parts of Syria | 83 | |
| 4865608180 | Phoenicians | dominant traders and merchants who created purple dye and established Carthage. | 84 | |
| 4865621451 | Israelites | a member of the ancient Hebrew nation, especially in the period from the Exodus to the Babylonian Captivity | 85 | |
| 4865657330 | Characteristics of a Civilization | cities, government, trade, social structure, writing and art | 86 | |
| 4865659196 | Chaldean | renowned astrologers and astronomers. | 87 | |
| 4865673232 | Chavin Cult | extinct prehistoric culture found in the Andean highlands of Peru | 88 | |
| 4865675162 | Hebrews | a member of an ancient people living in what is now Israel and Palestine and, according to biblical tradition, descended from the patriarch Jacob, grandson of Abraham. | 89 | |
| 4865697489 | Mandate of Heaven | is an ancient Chinese belief/theory and philosophical idea that tiān (heaven) granted emperors the right to rule based on their ability to govern well, appropriately and fairly. | 90 | |
| 4865703525 | Horse-drawn chariots | humanities first form of personal transport, used as a technological advancement in warfare and conquest. | 91 | |
| 4865714972 | Babylon | an ancient city of SW Asia, on the Euphrates River, famed for its magnificence and culture: capital of Babylonia and later of the Chaldean empire. | 92 | |
| 4865741332 | Sargon of Akkad | was the first ruler of the Semitic-speaking Akkadian Empire, known for his conquests of the Sumerian city-states in the 24th to 23rd centuries BC. | 93 | |
| 4865743395 | Assyrians | an ancient empire in SW Asia: greatest extent from about 750 to 612 b.c. the Capital: Nineveh. | 94 | |
| 4865778370 | Hittites | a member of an ancient people who established an empire in Asia Minor and Syria that flourished from circa 1700 to circa 1200 BCE | 95 |
